The local gendarmerie has launched an appeal for witnesses over the “series of cruel acts against domestic rabbits”.

Police were called after the bodies of seven rabbits were discovered slaughtered and dumped on the ground at a home in the village of Minihy-Tréguier on the Côtes-d’Armor coast on Saturday morning. Shocked locals had hoped the killings, which reportedly began in March, had stopped after several weeks passed without any animals being killed.